Fantasia on Xmas Carols

[jazzy_dave]

Here is another piece of Xmas music based on old folk songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams called Fantasia on Christmas Carols.

Fantasia on Christmas Carols is a 1912 work for baritone, chorus, and orchestra by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. First performed at the 1912 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral, the work is a single movement of roughly twelve minutes which consists of the English folk carols "The truth sent from above", "Come all you worthy gentlemen" and "On Christmas night all Christians sing" (i.e. the Sussex Carol), all folk songs collected in southern England by Vaughan Williams and his friend Cecil Sharp a few years earlier.

Choir of Guildford Cathedral
Barry Rose, Master of the Choristers/Conductor
John Barrow, Baritone
Pro Arte Orchestra
An EMI Recording (1966)

Comments

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Really beautiful. :)
Hugs, Jon

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

The truth sent from above, aka the Herfordshire Carol is just wonderful.

I like this arrangement so much.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, thank you so much, I adore Vaughan Wlliams and this is gorgeous.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

One of my favourite composers too!